Anthony Bourdain and philosophy : an appetite for life

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"Anthony Bourdain and Philosophy is a collection of chapters by a diverse group of philosophers on many aspects of Bourdain?́?s life and work. Among the topics discussed: What counts as food, and what counts as good food? What can we learn from travel that we could not glean from books and movies? Do eating habits bring people together or drive them apart? Is suicide a moral issue or just a matter of personal preference? Is it okay for an addicti...

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Pop culture and philosophy Pop culture and philosophy ; 12

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ISBN:

9781637700396
1637700393

Description:

xii, 233 pages ; 23 cm

Contents:

The Last Supper game
Taste : A man for all seasonings / Michael Shaffer ; To eat or not to eat? / Walter Barta and Candace Miranda ; The nasty bits / Scott Calef ; How Anthony Bourdain united the local and the universal / Walter Barta and Candace Miranda
Life : Friendship, fun, freedom, food, and the future / Michel Le Gall and Charles Taliaferro ; Authenticity in a world of bullshido / Ryan Falcioni ; Anthony Bourdain's extremely objectionable stories / Eric Holmes ; Why do we care who Bourdain really was? / Margot Finn ; Anthony Bourdain's inquiring mind / Doug Anderson and Samantha Mauro
Death : Some dark genie / Scott Calef ; The one truly serious philosophical problem / Darci Doll ; Bourdain's taste for freedom / Christophe Porot and Allen Simon
The good, the bad, and the ugly : Anthony Bourdain's antisocial ethics / Jill M. Kitchen and Frank Scalambrino ; Did Bourdain go #MeToo far? / Margot Finn ; The subtle persuasion of culinary adventure programs / Andrew Wahnsiedler ; Fine dining with children starving / Walter Barta and Candace Miranda ; Chef of the future? / Marc Cheong ; The journey may also save us / Trip McCrossin
Bibliography
Kitchen crew from the culinary underbelly
Index

Control Number:

3285741

Other Authors:

Anderson, Doug, contributor
Barta, Walter, contributor
Calef, Scott, 1959- editor, contributor
Cheong, Marc, contributor
Doll, Darci, contributor
Falcioni, Ryan, contributor
Finn, Margo, contributor
Holmes, Eric, contributor
Kitchen, Jill M., contributor
Le Gall, Michel, contributor
Mauro, Samantha, contributor
McCrossin, Trip, contributor
Miranda, Candace, contributor
Porot, Christophe, contributor
Scalambrino, Frank, 1976- contributor
Shaffer, M. B., contributor
Simon, Allen, contributor
Taliaferro, Charles, contributor
Wahnsiedler, Andrew, contributor

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